The meeting focused on developing long-term collaboration in agricultural research, particularly on insect pests affecting rice and horticultural crops, which continue to cause significant production losses in both Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The two sides agreed to promote joint research projects, faculty and postgraduate student exchanges, scientific publications, comparative studies, and the exchange of research material, technical expertise and innovative crop-protection technologies. He said Pakistan and Sri Lanka shared common agricultural challenges, particularly fruit flies affecting horticultural crops and insect pests damaging rice production. She described international faculty exchange programs as an effective platform for strengthening scientific cooperation, academic excellence and institutional partnerships between the two countries. The participants also agreed to enhance technical cooperation through faculty mobility, postgraduate research collaboration, exchange of scientific knowledge and the development of joint projects addressing shared agricultural challenges.